Lynn Green

General Secretary

The General Secretary serves our Union by offering spiritual leadership within the context of the Word and prayer.

The General Secretary is the leader of our Union, both internally in supporting, guiding and encouraging our Associations, Colleges and Churches in mission, and also externally in representing the Union in the UK and abroad, in both Christian and secular settings. Read more...

Ken Benjamin

President

The President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain is elected annually and takes office in May.

The President’s main role is as a communicator / facilitator of our Union’s vision and mission. The President travels around our Union, engaging with local churches, regional Associations and Colleges. Read more...

Governance

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What is Christianity?

Our Union of over 2000 churches is supported by staff in thirteen regional associations and three specialist teams based in Didcot, Oxfordshire. Our six Baptist Colleges prepare men and women for ministry and offer ongoing development and training.

Home Mission Grants are given to support a variety of ministries in and through Baptist churches and chaplains across the country. It also enables all our churches and ministers to be supported and helped through the work of the Regional Associations and the specialist teams in Didcot.

Other areas of work

Safeguarding for the protection of adults and children from harm, abuse or neglect. Every church should adopt safeguarding policy statements for children, young people, and adults at risk. We help churches maintain safe environments for all, with processes to follow should something go wrong, and support for everyone involved.

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Our Resources Library has a wealth of guideline leaflets and information to help you and your church on a range of topics. You can also find a range of booklets, cards and our Baptists Together magazine available to buy from the Online Shop.

Resourcing

South Ashford Baptist Church

South Ashford Baptist Church was started as a plant in the late 1950s from Ashford Baptist Church, Station Road, by a Baptist deaconess. The church has been independent since the 1960s, and called its first full time minister in 1973. For much of its history the church has been dependent on Home Mission, partly because the southern part of Ashford has significant social problems. The church holds around 120 but today the church has a congregation average of around 35, drawn from South Ashford and surrounding estates. Last year the previous pastor, the Revd Dr Daniel Clark, left to work with BMS in Peru, and the church was able to call a minister-in-training (MiT) who began in September 2015.

The church had a central role some 15 years ago in the creation of 'The Willow Centre’, a SureStart centre, nursery and community cafe, on land behind the church. This remains the church's primary means of community engagement and contact with the non-churched.

Things to thank God for:

attendance is increasing gradually, including some more children

rebuilding of good relationships with the Willow Centre, which had deteriorated in recent years, including the Centre paying for a new noticeboard for the church

a gift of some banners from another BU church has brightened things up inside.

Prayer requests:

whilst we have a few, we need more people in the 20-40 demographic, especially families with children, and wage earners. The financial position of the church requires prayer and faith!

for planning permission to be granted for the aforementioned noticeboard

for the summer BBQ to celebrate the Queen’s birthday (12 June) Holiday Bible Club (August) and Light party October) to be well attended and to go well.

Practical help: The church exterior guttering and fascias (and a few other bits!) needs decorating yet there are only a handful of us who are able bodied. We have set aside week beginning Monday 1 August, and if any one feels able to lend a hand, this would be much appreciated. (Our contact details are in the SEBA Handbook).

Myself and all the church family are very grateful for the way in which Home Mission has enabled the church to continue here, and more recently to call myself as MIT. We are thankful for this practical support, without which the church here would face an uncertain future. We are also thankful for the prayer support and fellowship of the wider Baptist family, expressed through SEBA and the local Network in South Kent. The long term vision is for the renewal of the fellowship here, both in spiritual and numerical terms, and for our ability to reach this deprived community with the gospel to be enhanced by this.

The Revd Andrew Mumford, Minister.

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